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Proof Is In: Kansas Is Flatter Than A Pancake

Posted by timothy on from the but-is-it-as-boring-as-hell dept.

plotdot writes "When motorists drive across Kansas with its expansive, fertile fields of grain, they most often observe that the state is flat as a pancake. Now, three scientists have proved that observation wrong. The May/June issue of Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) carries a story by Mark Fonstad, William Pugatch, and Brandon Vogt proving that Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake."

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  1. I live in Kansas... by xenocide2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not exactly hilly like a costal California city might be, but most of it isn't too flat. I live in the Kansas City area; there's plenty of hills around. And when I'm not in KC I'm attending school at KSU, where it is also not flat. The region is called the Flint Hills. Not the Flint Plains, nor the Flint Flatter-than-Pancakes. Hills.

    Of course, do be warned, I've never lived on a pancake, so my anecdotal evidence might be flawed =).

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  2. Re:What, too cheap to get the 3 pancake stack!? by 1in10 · · Score: 5, Funny

    While we're at it, why not compare with more than one Kansas?

  3. Re:What, too cheap to get the 3 pancake stack!? by acherrington · · Score: 5, Funny

    So um, add Arkansas into the mix?

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